As David said to Goliath, as Theseus said to the Minotaur, as Arjuna said to Bhagadatta... No.
Jinxes
How to run it (Storyteller)
How to play
- Announce your role early: telling the group you are the Soldier on day one burns a Demon pick every night and lets your team play more aggressively around you.
- Longevity as your weapon: because you survive Demon kills indefinitely, you are the ideal candidate to hold ground late game, force the Demon into wasted actions, and outlast execution pressure.
- Execution shield: do not hide behind your immunity to avoid the block — volunteers for execution when the town is confused can be powerful, but a living Soldier keeps draining Demon resources every night, so weigh the tempo.
- Confirm other claims: since you reliably survive the night, pair with a Slayer, Empath, or Fortune Teller who needs protection; your public survival record helps validate their information.
- Most common mistake: keeping quiet about being the Soldier to 'stay safe' — your ability has zero night-time information value, so the only way it benefits your team is if the Demon knows about it and wastes picks.
How to bluff as the Soldier
- Claim Soldier immediately and loudly — it is one of the few roles with zero night information to fake, so there is no awkward void to fill; just say you survived a kill attempt if the Demon cooperates by not killing you.
- Coordinate with your Demon: if the Demon avoids targeting you, your public survival is circumstantial confirmation of the bluff, but be careful — a real Soldier also simply survives, so this alone does not out you.
- The tell that exposes you: a real Soldier has no reason to be defensive about their claim, whereas an evil player bluffing Soldier may over-explain or add unnecessary detail; keep the claim flat and boring.
- Use the bluff to create a safe information vacuum — since Soldier produces nothing, you never have to invent fake night results, making it one of the cleanest bluffs for a Minion who needs to stay quiet and low-profile.
- Be wary late game: if a Mathematician is in the game and announces an ability failure, it likely points to the real Soldier surviving a Demon kill — do not claim Soldier in a game where that interaction could unmask you as the duplicate.
Key interactions
If the Demon targets the Soldier at night, the Mathematician learns an ability did not work as intended, giving good indirect confirmation both that a Soldier is in the game and that the Demon wasted a kill. As Soldier, going public early maximizes the chance the Demon attempts and telegraphs this to the Mathematician; as evil, be aware this information trail exists before bluffing the role.
Riot nominates and the vote executes the Soldier, good wins immediately — the Demon's own execution mechanic becomes a landmine. As Soldier, surviving into a Riot end-game and forcing nominations onto yourself is a direct path to a good victory.
Lleech choosing the Soldier as host still triggers the host mechanic, meaning the Soldier and Lleech die together — the Soldier does not escape this binding even though the poison side-effect is blocked. As Storyteller, apply the host consequence normally; as a player, being the Soldier does not protect you from eventual Lleech death.
The Pukka poisons a player each night then kills the poisoned player the following night, but this poison chain does not apply to the Soldier at all — neither the poisoning nor the deferred kill lands. This makes the Soldier uniquely resilient in a Pukka game and worth identifying early so the Pukka's pattern of deferred deaths can be cross-referenced.